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They started asking me about other young women
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The Fruit Machine

They started asking meabout other young women that I knew that were lesbian

They started asking me
about other young women that I knew that were lesbian

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- They started asking me about other young women
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that I knew that were lesbian.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:59
Uploaded
Jun 23, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
SandBay Entertainment

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Movie Summary

Some softened by age and sadness, others loud and angry, the voices of the survivors of Canada’s public service homosexual purge are now united, and determined. They are torqued by decades of silence, years of being ignored. They demand justice, and they want to be heard. Theirs is a story of betrayal that is both national and deeply personal. Men and women who dedicated their lives to public service, some signing oaths of allegiance and servitude; casualties of a political tapestry woven in the fibers of acute security measures that somehow became normalized.
And they go through every single one of them. - The Fruit Machine 00:04
And they go through every single one of them.
They pointed out to me that I had failed it - The Fruit Machine 00:13
They pointed out to me that I had failed it
And when they asked if I knew, I said yes and they got out - The Fruit Machine 00:09
And when they asked if I knew, I said yes and they got out
I did not want to be the cause... - The Fruit Machine 00:04
I did not want to be the cause...
I didn't want to be the one, - The Fruit Machine 00:06
I didn't want to be the one,
- But for me to be in that room, somebody had to talk, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
- But for me to be in that room, somebody had to talk,
So, they were suspicious already that I'm gay. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
So, they were suspicious already that I'm gay.
- CFAO 19-20 gave them all the right to do anything - The Fruit Machine 00:08
- CFAO 19-20 gave them all the right to do anything
Every single second of your life, they know. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
Every single second of your life, they know.
- The three questions were "Are you homosexual? - The Fruit Machine 00:05
- The three questions were "Are you homosexual?
Are you bisexual? Or are you heterosexual?" - The Fruit Machine 00:14
Are you bisexual? Or are you heterosexual?"
You know what I am." - The Fruit Machine 00:07
You know what I am."
- And then they start reading - The Fruit Machine 00:07
- And then they start reading
They followed me for a whole month. - The Fruit Machine 00:06
They followed me for a whole month.
- They told me that I was a lesbian, and that there was - The Fruit Machine 00:12
- They told me that I was a lesbian, and that there was
- So, - The Fruit Machine 00:08
- So,
- It was like a movie. It was like a movie. - The Fruit Machine 00:06
- It was like a movie. It was like a movie.
But in the movies, they take actors. - The Fruit Machine 00:05
But in the movies, they take actors.
I was a teenager, I was a kid. - The Fruit Machine 00:14
I was a teenager, I was a kid.
I cried so much, that the medics said - The Fruit Machine 00:26
I cried so much, that the medics said